内蒙古奈曼旗第一中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题注意事项：1.本卷满分150分，考试时间100分钟。答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试卷和答题卡上。2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。3.非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内，答在其他区域无效。 第一部分 听力 （省略）第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑AVOLUNTEERKenya Community Development ProjectGreenheart Travels volunteer program in Kenya allows you the special chance to work alongside the Maasai community helping them to receive a good education， income activities， food safety and basic resources such as water As a volunteer in Kenya you will have the chance to learn about the interesting Maasaiway of life in order to work within their special cultural and social environment How You Will Make a Difference *Help schools get necessary supplies *Help with building houses *Volunteer in the hospitals *Help with watering crops *Help womens groups with finding new markets to sell their crafts *Organize youth sports *Help with chicken farming Cost Details Prices： 2 weeks： 142 4 weeks： 218 5 weeks： 249 6 weeks： 286 8 weeks： 3579 weeks： 392 10 weeks： 416 11 weeks： 464 12 weeks： 500 A Great Opportunity For Seniors/ Retirees/ Groups /Professionals Language Needed English（fluent） Skills Needed， Experience No experience required Detailed Location Information Volunteer must be 23 years of age or older*Meals are not included， but volunteers can buy food at the market and cook at the volunteer house21. We can know that the Maasai A may not have enough drinking waterB are good at making moneyC are usually well educatedD pay more attention to their world22.What will a volunteer do for the Maasai？ A Buy necessary things for schoolsB Help build houses for the local peopleC Help women sell their crafts at the marketD Train the young people to become players23.According to the text， volunteers A have to speak the local languageB must be teenagers or olderC must have the rich experience in volunteeringD have to pay for meals themselvesB Bill Bowerman was a track coach He wanted to help athletes run faster So he had learned how to make running shoes He had also started a shoe company with a friend It was 1971 Running shoes at the time were heavy They had spikes（鞋钉）on the sole（鞋底） The spikes tore up the track and slowed down runners To make a lighter shoe， Bill tried the skins of fish To make a better sole， he wanted to replace the spikes Bill look through his wife Barbaras jewelry box lie hoped to find a piece of jewelry with an interesting pattern He would then copy the pattern onto the new soles Nothing worked Bill was stumped Then， one Sunday morning， Barbara made Bill waffles（华人饼）for breakfast Bill watched her cook He studied the cross pattern on their old waffle iron Inspiration（灵感）hit The pattern on a waffle iron was just what Bill was looking for The squares were fatter and wider than sharp spikes The pattern would help the shoes grip（抓牢）any surface without tearing into it When Barbara left the house， Bill ran to his lab He took the liquid chemicals that， when mixed， would harden into the sole of a shoe He poured the mixture into the waffle iron and the Waffle Trainer was born Bills company put the Waffle Trainer on the market in 1974 It was a huge hit Maybe youve heard of that company called Nike And today its worth around S 100 billion It was the waffle iron that had changed the course of Bills life and helped turn Nike into a wellknown name Today， the waffle iron is kept at Nike headquarters It serves as a reminder that if we keep trying， we can find a solution to even the toughest problems And those solutions can cone from unlikely places Even the breakfast table24.What was wrong with the running shoes before the Wattle Trainer was made A They were easily worn outB The spikes hurt runners feetC The spikes were sharp and heavyD They were too expensive25. What does the underlined word stumped in paragraph 2 probably mean？ A InspiredB DefeatedC SatisfiedD Doubted26. What can we say about the birth of Waffle Trainer？ A It was made quite by accidentB It was invented by Bills wifeC It was based on many lab testsD It was supported by another company27. What can we learn from Bills experience？ A Where theres a will， theres a wayB Good is rewarded with goodC Two heads are better than oneD A misfortune may turn out a blessingCGwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding about black culture in America Her poems described condit